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Show Spring Vetch. We illustrate Spring Vetch, a plant that is being tested on various soils as a renovator and forage plant. At the Kansas station it lias been tried and condemned for Kansas. But this " SPRING VETCH does not prove that it has no value for other states. We have yet to learn what possibilities are locked up in it. Cultivation and selection may yet evolve something from it. Rate of Seeding Wheat. Unless some unusual condition exists, ex-ists, the Oklahoma Experiment Station Sta-tion seeds wheat at the rate of one and one-half bushels per acre. Cover-- Cover-- ing a period of several years at this station different amounts varying from three . to eight pecks per acre were seeded on different plats to furnish fur-nish data on this question, says a bulletin bul-letin of the Oklahoma station. The average of these results show a few bushels in favor of the five and six veck rates, but there were cases' in 'which there was practically no dif-r dif-r Terence in yields from the lightest to m, the heaviest sgpd'ng. On the pther hand there were uuies"wheh such un-'usual un-'usual rates as three pecks and eight ;pecks gave much poorer results than 'a medium amount. Similar experiments experi-ments have been carried on by many jof the stations over the United States and the results agree very closely with those given above and all recommends i a good liberal seeding as being the safest rule to follow. Conditions have been found to influence the results .very much at times, so that any fixed rule cannot be laid down, and the farmer farm-er should give each individual case ' due consideration as many poor yields have been the result of not using the proper quantity of seed wheat per acre. The following factors are to be considered in deciding the rate of seeding, time of seeding, character and condition of soil; location, char acter of seed (quality, size of berry, purity, method of seeding and variety characteristics. Before considering these it is well to recall to mind that wheat, like other small grains, has the characteristic of throwing out from each seed, stalks varying in number num-ber from two to several dozen, in extreme ex-treme cases. The number usually runs as high as half a dozen at least This is the tillering or stooling of the plant Due to this habit of growth the number of seed stalks per foot may not vary much even if different amounts of seed are used per acre, and consequently the yield per acre may not differ materially. But much will depend upon the factors cited above whether we get the proper number num-ber of seed stalks per foot or whether they produce the maximum amount of good grain. If any condition exists that stimulates or allows an abnormal amount of tillering, it is usually detrimental det-rimental to the yield and quality of the grain, but the injury is seldom sel-dom due to there being too many stalks produced per foot as the tendency tend-ency is to produce about so many seed stalks per foot and then the tillering ceases. Colds in the Fall. Some poultry raisers complain that their fowls catch cold in the fall when they are shut up in close coops at night. There are several causes for this. One of them is that the coop is so warm that the birds become too warm, and when turned out of doors are affected by the cold winds. Another An-other is that in the warm coop or house there are drafts that come from adjacent cracks. There is no trouble of this kind with a properly ventilated house. There the constantly changing chang-ing air keeps the fowls from becoming uncomfortably warm, and the cracks are wanting. We need to pay more attention to poultry house architecture. |